It was really cool when they were clot hunting in my legs with this past edema. Sure, he'd have been done in half the time if I'd stopped asking questions, but that's a lot of nifty tech and I want to know what the pictures mean.
I always want to know.
However there are other ultrasounds. If you get a trans-cranial one there's no goo. But you can't see the screen either, normally. Which is just as well--they're listening to your brain. It might set up some sort of fatal feedback loop.
My juice cleanse starts tomorrow. I'm trying to work out a shopping list with no wheat, gluten, or tyramine that's also low on the dairy for afterwards.
It's all so very weird. I'm not totally committed to no-gluten--that's in case the migraines are linked to celiac disease, but the only way to diagnose the disease is with biopsy. So why jump through that hoop on top of the already unwieldy no-wheat one?
Johnny Diablo is one hell of a name though.
Well, of a sort. But that was my point, their argument was that legally I couldn't see it and that a doctor had to interpret the results for me. Um, somehow I don't think that you give that spiel to pregnant women.
Huh. I can see the "we're not allowed to interpret it" thing, as an x-ray technician told me that when she showed me my x-ray and pointed to where the break was....
I don't want to cook dinner tonight.
Huh. I can see the "we're not allowed to interpret it" thing, as an x-ray technician told me that when she showed me my x-ray and pointed to where the break was....
Yeah, except at that point, I knew I had a cyst and only wanted to know how big it was. After I switched hospitals, I learned that it was all bullshit. Of course, this is also the hospital with the doctor who thought my problems were "all in my mind" and who, after I ended up in the emergency room and had my first (of many) sonograms, said that it didn't necessarily mean anything because "you have a lot going on down there."
I'm just glad Dylan emerged from that place unscathed.
said that it didn't necessarily mean anything because "you have a lot going on down there."
By that he meant confusing lady parts I guess?
Have any of our lawyers or librarians or others done immigration work?
I think Stephanie does something related -- but you might try reposting the question in bitches, what with Frisco's effect on her posting time.
The one ultrasound I recall having was borderline painful, but that owed more to the technician pressing a piece of plastic right between hip and thigh where I'd caught myself with a table corner than to the actual ultrasonic waves.
The standard thinking these days is that Metropolis is NYC. Gotham is in Jersey.
Gotham may be geographically located in New Jersey. I think in a metaphorical sense, it was definitely based on New York City, and Metropolis probably owes mostly to early 20th century NYC as well although the newspaper setting is probably Chicago-inspired.
